Since I was last around Shapeways started offering "Clear Ultra Fine Detail" plastic. I'm mostly interested in it for another more or less defunct game, but I'm looking for opinions on it. Is it UV-stable? Somehow at my house indoor ambient indirect UV will ruin Fine Detail plastic, even through a thin black basecoat. How brittle is it? Shapeways actually claims it's slightly flexible.
Since I'd be using it for 1/1800 ships and 1/900 planes, detail plastic of some form is a must for the ships, and normal Fine Detail is actually just barely acceptable in terms of brittle for the ships. For them the bigger problem with FD is the lack of UV-stability for elaborately painted and potentially large-area decaled models. (And having the same decay with the glue I use for a few of them.) If the new Clear Ultra Fine Detail is UV stable then I'w switching to using it. The 1/900 planes Fine Detail is too brittle for, but the forces on them won't be all that high, and something between Versatile Plastic and Fine Detail would be enough. (And the planes need clear flight stands, so the "clear" part makes it a natural choice for them.) For Wings of Glory, if it turns out to be strength/durability wise between FD and Versatile Plastic, it might actually wind up being an acceptable alternate material that doesn't need surface prep.
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